🧙┃mage

[little pagoda]

whats your total int

[outer folio]

how do i look

85

[little pagoda]

yh thats quite low

try get some upgrades, do you have legends entwined?

• weaver amulet?

[outer folio]

not yetr

[little pagoda]

ultimately LB is an int scaling build, you get a lot of dmg from int

[outer folio]

okay thank you

[little pagoda]

make sure you rings have int, your helm, your chest

[sacred ruin]

cold aura (fire aura convert) is pretty good

that's probably the most promising spellblade spec I've seen

[little pagoda]

spellblade suffers from the same thing it always has. its squishy af

[sacred ruin]

you stack cold res

ward retention + damage and scale int

not as tanky as like the tankiest classes but tanky enough

[gilded iron]

just those 2 is rough, with every unique piece you get it gets exponentially stronger, had the same trouble and then added the boots + temporarily the helmet from lightless arbor dungeon and it helped a lot

[little pagoda]

the orion belt is easy if you havr the echo

plus the boots

[spring crag]

hi guy

is black hole good in this season (clear/bosses)?

[native jacinth]

U have build? When you change it to cold I take it u have to stack cold instead of fire res?

[tiny quail]

Man my rng is pure poop, I haven’t gotten an upgrade since Friday 🙁

i think ill go back to the plan of lightning blast runemaster, i wanna try it. anyone got a non-maxroll variant?

[full bluff]

I am having lots of fun this season playing mage, but seems like most do the classic builds, hopefully find something new later 🙂

[plucky portal]

So i been testing out fire aura build for spellblade. its ok. still struggling a little on corruption 300 or so.

I maybe speced its too much surviability. have about 440% retention and about 6000 ward.

but taking me a bit to get 8 rift beasts killed.

i always wonder how you guys balance damage vs survivability. if Fire aura truly melted everything maybe i could go more glass canon. but at 300 corruption. not seeing damage scaling fast enough to melt everything.

maybe i need more fire aura proc?

[sacred ruin]

it's the one that is on maxroll

[tiny quail]

2 chests in 2.5 days with no lp from start and then egged into this

🙂

[sacred ruin]

probably will be fine if you just push a little harder on getting more fire aura procs

[full bluff]

Random luck here

[dapper chasm]

damn

[hollow tusk]

is fire frost claw good for utility skills? I want to find some utility auto skill for my flame reave SB.

[little pagoda]

lmao the end of an omen chain is stupid af

[tender wasp]

what build you playing? Iwas considering rune master too but i've never played it and wasn't sure hwo the rune managment feels. Also was still considering trying black hole because I love that skill but i havent seen any builds with it yet

[little pagoda]

by runemaster I assume they mean LB

[proven haven]

For your LB build the left one. LB already has base 30% chance of LB, an extra 2 is negligible, especially with the enigma flat nerf. You also already get 1000%+ increased damage for basically free with the build, 100% spell is far less "more" damage than 38% cast speed.

[tender wasp]

Frozen Sentinal are there any blackhole builds youve seen? Blackhole as in that ise the primary damage for mapping/bossing or is it not viable like that?

[proven haven]

I tried Collapse + Wildfire, just regular pull + wildfire, moving B-hole, etc etc. It always seems to suck for clear

[tender wasp]

i heard there was an uber aber kill with it but i dunno about mapping

[plucky portal]

yeah i am doing cold

[tender wasp]

ah okay that is what i figured

[sacred ruin]

same I think just need to scale up my damage abit further

and get more stacks

[proven haven]

It can kill Uber but you are either doing a mapping swap, or just sacrificing single target / clear to do both.

I'd also probably guess offline or legacy. It's been really hard to get idols

idols are like 5x damage for the build, or more

[gilded iron]

Also one question, do you think taking off Convergence is a thing if I want to speedfarm?

[proven haven]

sure, if your damage is really high you can do it

[gilded iron]

i guess boss damage goes down by a lot?

[proven haven]

you'll get annoyed with tanky champs, mages, nemesis, etc. though

yep

[gilded iron]

hmm where I am at right now i blow up champs/mages and so on before i see their hp bar

time to push some corruption

[proven haven]

yea its like 80% single target loss or something

[gilded iron]

still trying to find my way in this game, havent played since before multiplayer was introduced 😄

[sacred ruin]

nerf omen mobs plz

[gilded iron]

alright thanks! Also thank you for your guides, has been a blast with it so far

[plucky portal]

hwat builds are you guys pusing with corruption?

[gilded iron]

lb runemaster

[gilded iron]

Oh and one last question if I may the belt is just because of high int right? Or am i missing other benefits?

[proven haven]

correct

[gilded iron]

so any high int belt i can get my hands on fits, sounds good

[proven haven]

int doesn't roll on belts

[gilded iron]

oh then that makes even more sense 😄 thanks

[little pagoda]

i really need to craft a proper vilatria helm

@proven haven apparently you cant slam extra affix's onto set items

[proven haven]

yep

I updated my guide

unfortunate tbh

well planner* anyway

[little pagoda]

im kinda sad

i mean weaver still op

best thing to do is slam the 'max affix's' onit

[gilded iron]

oh you also have crafting guides? where can i find those?

[proven haven]

2t7 vilatria on my channel, except instead of 2T7 you probably doing T7 T5 + vilatria

[little pagoda]

the floor dots on omens are a joke

[gilded iron]

man in that video you are zooming, how do you get so much movespeed? 😄

[little pagoda]

trying to get a lp1 twisted xD

ive done like 40 fights ffs

[gilded iron]

that? 😄

i dont have a good relic to put into it yet

[clear skiff]

Does anyone know if the %ele penetration with ele nova from crest of unity also applies to ignites applied with ele nova?

[mild bluff]

What's better? left (assuming the t7 cold res) or right?

i think its right still right?

[gilded iron]

two questions:

are you doing dot dmg?
are you looking for damage or defensives?

[mild bluff]

increased +79% dot vs 17% cold res (17% more damage + 8% ward ret)

[minor monolith]

can always corrupt the one you think is worse and see what you land

[little pagoda]

finally ffs

[gilded iron]

you farmed a few beasts, i see 😄

[mild bluff]

good point, luckily i dropped another t7 cold res with like no other stats to just slam in it

[tiny quail]

just cant stop wininng 😄

[little pagoda]

tf my weaver amulet went missing lmao

[mild bluff]

well

i guess that solves that conudrum

[tiny quail]

does this crit mod work for shattering strike?

[weary hamlet]

sure, it's just generic crit

[half pollen]

unless he means the +3% crit for swipe

[modern thicket]

I have lvl 31 can somebody boost me or play with me so the game drops me some better loot? I am a runemaster mage, or I wanna be :)) username: PopRobert

[tender wasp]

o.O

[ashen glacier]

does the HP to ward % matter on twisted heart

or should i go for the attack speed roll better

[gilded iron]

i love nemesis 😄

[little pagoda]

nice 🙂

random slam? is this better than base?

that ring has 3 t6's and a t7 lmao

[tiny quail]

GOD!! when i finally thing i have an upgrade

those t7 crit gloves gives nothing from the t7 affix

[ashen glacier]

is there any opint going above 100?

[tiny quail]

no 🙁 only with a certain primordial item that makes crit above 100% into multi

[ashen glacier]

on my 1lp spoon i know people said put asp over crit dmg, but im already running OOM in seconds 😄

[tiny quail]

ofc....

[ashen glacier]

if i do put attack speed first i have to then use rune bolt every few sec?

[meager widget]

I remember when I first realized how crit actually worked in this game and I started to stack static crit chance instead of crit incease. My crit chance went from 20% to almost 200% in about 10 mins

[ashen glacier]

can sealed affix be slammed thats from a purple

[fresh mountain]

any frost build for end game mage ?

[round hare]

Defense as spellblade is still shit..

[left hill]

game is sending signs I refuse to listen to lol. just dropped a 3LP Enigma.

[vivid wedge]

running into the same issue, damage is fine as long as I have stuff to hit and have mana, but minute either of those two runs out..

[full bluff]

Only thing that kills me now is DoT in omen windows, suddenly drains all ward and life

Have to hit cleanse in 1 sec

[round hare]

They new passive nodes are a Joke, Like 5 percent more Armor and 1 percent Dodge.. im Flame reave on 320 cor

[plucky portal]

agreed. i am trying to do a omen window spawns 3 bosses on 275 corruption with spell blade but i can't survive the trash despite 6000 ward. and flame ward twice. and constnatly dodge and teleporting through the mess. eventually i just get overwhelmed.

my fire aura dot around 6900 damage.

is that good?

or weak?

[stray dove]

is it better to farm to empowered with leveling guide (maxroll) and then farm stolen lance for fragment of enigma or farm stolen lance in normal monoliths

[full bluff]

Have to more than just ward / health, need sustain, regen to keep taking damage, it all adds up

[vivid wedge]

never normal monoliths

if that's ever an option the answer is the other one

[full bluff]

If you are CoF use rune of ascendance for fragmet of enigma

[stray dove]

seems possible to get to empowered with current build .. so thanks 🙂

[stray dove]

i did ... 8 times ...

[vivid wedge]

empowered just adds a ton of rarity increase, more item options, etc etc

more xp yadda

[umbral perch]

I mean the correct answer here is 'clearly insufficient for your needs'. I would expect fire aura to be good at hordes, if it isn't, probably you are not stacking the scaling factors sufficiently (int, spell damage, ele DoT, and the appropriate resist). If you import your char to https://www.lastepochtools.com/ and share, folks can offer more specific advice

[stray dove]

but im gonna do that during grind to empowered

[full bluff]

I used over 30 attemps to get mana guide, fragment has double chance, so guess 15+ attempts

[little pagoda]

hmm im at the stage where theres no real easy upgrade I can do

[tawny orchid]

yo is it me or is spellblade shatter strike just squishy i just got to empowred mono and i get random onehshots

[little pagoda]

yep its squishy af ive heard

mage is just squishy but caster mage can survive with twisted

[tawny orchid]

shiiit issue is it looks cool but my ward generation is lacking i feel like since it's the only issue keeping me alive plus im shooting myself in the foot with the self inflicting dot with diothaen

[vivid wedge]

yeah I'm exploring pivots now but it doesn't look like there's much besides LB RM right now

[tawny orchid]

i tried LB sorc it just sucked

[full bluff]

If you want something off-meta, that kind of works, this is what I play as season starter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8RlHcZDWMk&t=2s, just using focus for damage, nothing else

[dry void]

Has anybody tried the volcanic orb buffs? Is it any good?

[full bluff]

but not sure I would recommend it, just for weirdos like me

[little pagoda]

as in boring or as in weak?

[tawny orchid]

weak

[little pagoda]

its very much not xD

[tawny orchid]

reaso nwhy beside the nerf it got in the official patch notes

it was "bug fixed" just before launch by few mins

well maybe i was doing some wrong bro

but even this streamer allie

[little pagoda]

I mean im doing 500 corruptions fine enough

[tawny orchid]

was league starting it and she said veyr same thing

[little pagoda]

deleted abb

[gilded iron]

nemesis strikes again... just need good relics with t7 now xD

[little pagoda]

Just get int on it xD

[meager widget]

What are the best weapons for Spellblade right now?

[ornate coral]

Do you have have any tips to get at least 2+ T6/7? beside more corup and spam prophecies obviously

[gilded iron]

yeah i dont really drop t7 int... idk why

[ornate coral]

get any T7 stat and change it with the woven, dont wait perfect T7 stats like i did, waste of time x)

[umbral perch]

spamming nemesis tower woven echoes or troves (usually by farming bones -> memory amber) was the strat. with the rift beast echoes nerfed, not sure what the new hotness is. The guaranteed nemesis in tombs/cemeteries might be good if we're all running chains these days.

[gilded iron]

with woven? how?

[umbral perch]

i assume they mean Runes of Havoc to shuffle the tiers from a random affix to the one you want. probabl overkill for INT affixes, though. could look for dex/str/att and convert it using the crafting echo

[ornate coral]

One of these 2 allow you to change whicever attribute you want for 1 FP

[gilded iron]

the left one is unique reroll

[ornate coral]

I dont have one to show sorry

[little pagoda]

one of the wovens allows you to reroll stats to whichever you want

[gilded iron]

now i just gotta find one of those... xD

[umbral perch]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/endgame/monolith/woven-echoes/oerdens-watch

faction rank 10 required to buy it 🙁 but it's not super rare, if you're dropping lots of echoes and then using the reweaving cemetery echo to reroll the bad drops, it should show up reasonably fast

[tiny quail]

What’s the difference between? You mean like melee vs (global) increased?

[ornate coral]

I feel like getting double T+6 items are super duper rare now, am i just unlucky?

[meager widget]

no, like one gives static crit chance, and the other multiplies your static crit chance

[umbral perch]

between +1% added crit and 10% increased crit, sounded like they had tons and tons of increased crit, swapped some of it for added

[tiny quail]

Ahhh

[umbral perch]

easy to think bigger number is better if not reading carefully

[tiny quail]

Yeah

[gilded iron]

oh im close to 10 anyways

ty

[tiny quail]

+1-4% is base and ”increased” multiplies it right?

[meager widget]

iyes

[tiny quail]

gimmmeeee ive found 2 wings of argentus so far. both none lp that turned into mana in the egg 🙁

[gilded iron]

what faction is that?

[tiny quail]

coF

cof

[gilded iron]

oh oops, ty

[tiny quail]

nw!

[upper fern]

It really needs to have enough gear to get going. I made the mistake of season starting as shatter strike SB, so it took me a bit to farm up the gear. Once I got it, been on easy auto pilot for 500+ Corruption so far

The worst part is the helm. So much of the DPS is tied up in that thing

And it’s a huge PITA to make a decent one

[fervent ledge]

It's just super gear dependant. Trash without all proper items.

Fortunately the only expensive piece to get it going tho is the stupid set helm

[dry void]

Which helm are we talking about?

[fervent ledge]

Valatria storm crown. 400k not terrible I guess

To break it down

How many shards do you get again

[dry void]

Are you using it for Meteor? Is that what that helm is for?

[fervent ledge]

Lb rm build , extra set item

For the neck and ring combo

[dry void]

Sorry would you mind explaining that more? I have no idea what that means lol

[fervent ledge]

Somehow still easier to gear then warlock builds lol

[dry void]

Oh wait, a lightning blast runemaster?

[fervent ledge]

Lightning blast rune master. Best mage build atm

Maxroll has good guide on this combo

Mult Set peice build. Using legends entwined.

[dry void]

I've never played as a Rune Master. I always found it a little intimidating with the Rune system. I don't even know how it works.

[little pagoda]

ive found like 12 of them helms xD

[little pagoda]

well with the lightning blast runemaster you just ignore the rune system xD

[dry void]

Oh... well maybe I'll have to give it a try sometime this season

[weary hamlet]

the rune system is very easy, the problem is that if you want to play runic invocation, you are pigeon holed into a couple of annoying build around uniques

also most of the individual invocations either such hard or kinda suck, the playable few are an exception

which also forces you into one of a couple of rather unfun ways of locking yourself into a specific combination

the QOL is very bad all around

[gilded iron]

eh well, shit corruption but still better than before

[little pagoda]

damn your corrupting them xD

[full bluff]

Lucky day for 2xT7s

[little pagoda]

gg

I want one of them but I dont get enough 1lp unstable cores

[full bluff]

This was 6th corruption attempt

[little pagoda]

have you stuck them in weav I guess

[full bluff]

yes imprinted a good rolled stat one

getting quite a few

[little pagoda]

oh does that matter

I honestly have the weave system its not explained it all

[full bluff]

yes, need good rolled ranges on this item

given me 3 identical ones as imprinted

[little pagoda]

I should do that

[full bluff]

Imprinted a legendary one, seemed to make them drop with 1lp... but all this is just guessing, could be random luck again

but corruption is giving quite a lot of t7 affixes

[little pagoda]

I need to start slamming some of my items I guess

[full bluff]

thats the dopamin fun

[little pagoda]

its not if i break my 1lp entwined xD

[full bluff]

saving primordial for last...

[little pagoda]

🙂

[full bluff]

I have been corrupting set items for that crazy lucky one

mostly getting totally useless stuff, but they are free gambles

then break them for shards

[blazing jay]

Any updated autobomber build?

[tiny quail]

IT HAPPEND!!! AFTER THREE DAYS

say the magic words pretty please!

[dapper chasm]

Alohomora

[tiny quail]

🙁

2/2

[little pagoda]

doing the triple omen is actually impossible as mage

like they designed it with sentinal in mind because for some reason that stupid class does the most dps, has the best aoe and is unkillable

[left hill]

triple omen?

[glossy quarry]

What build are you doing?

Do you have cleanse and flame ward charges?

[little pagoda]

yes im using lb

I can clear the mono on it just fine, its just theres way too many mobs in 3 omens and too much stuff on floor and I cant see what to dodge

[tiny quail]

cant beat T4 julra 🙁

[plucky portal]

How do you guys use corrupted runes safely?
I heard there is a 75% chance to be postive. and i have used it on 4 uniques and 3 were negative and only one was midly positive.

i had it turn one of my t7 melee attack speed on my uniques to t1. i was like damn! thats brutal.

[full bluff]

I create duplicate/similar items and corrupt them, and I always corrupt second grade items, I slam not perfect rolls too and gamble for corruption.

[weary hamlet]

1. pray to rngesus
2. corrupt
3. cry a lot

[full bluff]

Low rolled idols have pretty good chance to get maxed rolled with corruption, fixed my baseline idols fast

[trim hatch]

I dont think the rolls have any weight when deciding outcome

[outer folio]

is ballista way faster clear then lightning mage?

[umbral perch]

I think they're just saying that idols don't have as many possible outcomes so you have a decent chance to get 'reroll affixes to max', and it's common to find a lot of idols with okay combinations of affixes but terrible rolls. hadn't occurred to me to look out specifically for idols of that type to corrupt (an idol with good rolls that gets a more useful corrupt will be better, but is much riskier to corrupt)

[umbral perch]

i don't know the exact mechanism but I think we got dev confirmation that imprinting a legendary (or a unique with equivalent LP) gives some boost to the chance that the imprint drops have LP. a good use for nemesis upgrades that get multiple useless affixes

[trim hatch]

Right, I just don't want peopel to read that and think that because its lower rolled it has a better chance to get the all max rolls corrupt

[weary hamlet]

my idols are mostly turbo shit so no real point in corrupting them either way

[tender wasp]

wouldn't the play to get a copy of your gear and use it on a backup? Maybe one that is slightly worse than what you are using and hope it makes it better?

that is prob your safest bet

[full bluff]

I found after corrupting almost any gear that could become an upgrade, all my gear is corrupted, and non corrupted items are usually not an upgrade by itself. So the question of not corrupting "best gear" is gone. Everyhting I wear is corrupted, but far from perfect.

Only idols I hold back on since I want enchants also...

[glossy quarry]

Holy ahit

When glacier sorc gets enough manan

Its over

But before 1k mana

It’s giga meme

[dry void]

This is my first time playing mage. Is it better to use a staff or a wand and an off-hand as a sorcerer?

[wild solstice]

Actually when I was leveling I picked up anything that suited me and my build, so I went through 20 levels with staff +99% to lightning dmg, but now I find wand/off-hand more useful. Highly depends on your build, for example I've got 2H something with huge procs towards volcanic orb.

[little pagoda]

has anyone made a meteor build yet?

[gilded iron]

uhh, i hit a nice corruption

[elfin rapids]

giga

[little pagoda]

nice

[tender wasp]

i dunno if this endedup good or bad, but it definitely is interesting

lol

[hardy condor]

i just tried runic invocation with the turret that shot runebolt and even with fundamntal critrion i deal meme dmg .any idea how to improve my dps ?? or should i just rsigne ?

[little pagoda]

if your going rune just go LB

[hardy condor]

so i resign no hop for runbolt turret ?

[versed hawk]

I believe there is a hydrahedron guide on Maxroll, check that out if you want to make hydrahedron work. It's pretty strong iirc

[steady folio]

Aight who is doing this Reddit meteor build. I was gonna go Lich Flay but after seeing that, I’m tempted

[kindred oxide]

I've been playing Sunwreath Flame Reave. it is nasty

[muted lagoon]

he was only at like 150 corruption or something

waiting for his update when he gets higher to see if its actually decent

[steady folio]

https://www.reddit.com/r/LastEpoch/s/LCjyfLc3kv

[muted lagoon]

yeah like i said hes low corruption

[steady folio]

Got ya

[steady folio]

I figured there was hits over 1 million that should be shredding, but I’m curious about the survivability

[cosmic dove]

there were some prelaunch rumors that FC cast by Heat Flux Meteor were somehow treated as direct and could benefit from Gift of Winter
has anyone tested this?

[muted lagoon]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/planner/jtctgq0e

was looking for something

and found this

[stray comet]

Did they nerf red ring drop rate?

[versed hawk]

Not the random drops, but drop rate from imprinting in weaver tree is significantly lower

[stray comet]

wow i didn't know they nerfed it, so we actually have to push even higher corruption now

[valid pier]

Is the flame reave build pretty simply to play? Is it just spamming the 1 button

[ashen glacier]

I have lp1 spoon and enigma, is attack speed preferred over crit dmg? My attack speed is currently 160% and crit dmg 252%. I'm LB RM

wann make sure to slam right stat

[ashen glacier]

i went into eopwere dmonoliths, base 100 ones, getting 1 shot with just lp0 LB RM stuff

didn't expect it to be so bad i remember doing up to 400-500 on other builds w/ lp0 but i guess this one is extra gear dependent

[stray comet]

That’s mage for you, heavily gear dependent

[ashen glacier]

Guess i should try falconer or paladin like everyone else lol

i remember doing like 500+ a few seasons ago on those w/ lp0

[stray comet]

I’m currently destroying 400 corruption with Lp0 gear btw but it’s shatterstrike so😐

[ashen glacier]

ehh

guess i picked the wrong build

as soon as i click omen im dead

like .5 sec later

[stray comet]

I still get one shot too but i just hit and move lol

[ashen glacier]

harder than poe2 atm lol im gonna maybe go an easier class

[stray comet]

I’ve played mage on LE, D4 and poe2, none of them know how to balance the class

[wild solstice]

You can always change your build, in PoE you don't have that freedom 😏

[muted lagoon]

https://www.reddit.com/r/LastEpoch/s/nHqWJue8BC

[nimble horizon]

any idea how to not make spellblade feel like paper? even with 5k+ ward i still melt randomly

[kindred oxide]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/QJW4eq2a
Running this right now, feels really strong.

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 97

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Version:

Season 4: Shattered Omens / 1.4.1

Class:

Mage (20) / Spellblade (84) / Runemaster (6)

General:

▸ Health: 2,022, Regen: 0/s
▸ Mana: 300.99, Regen: 8.4/s
▸ Ward Retention: 136%, Regen: 107/s
▸ Attributes: 19 Str / 65 Dex / 68 Int / 11 Att / 32 Vit
▸ Resistances: 132% / 75% / 85% / 75% / 94% / 121% / 82%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 59%, Threshold: 404
▸ Dodge Chance: 14% (446)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 38% (2,024)
▸ Block Chance: 15%, Mitigation: 26% (477)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 85%

Used skills:

Mana Strike / Flame Reave / Flame Ward / Enchant Weapon / Surge

[kindred oxide]

Just bought the uber gloves and relic. I used Grasp of the Blood Mage and a Corrupted Exalted Relic before that.

Mapping is fast, just spams a point blank AoE Flame Reave around you, every 4th one is super big. Usually kills in 1-2 hits.

Bosses have been smooth too.

At 400-ish no signs of slowing yet. Lots of room for upgrades still.

I was Fire Aura before, I didn't love it. Switched to this, and it is similar play style to Aura but feels better in every way. Also, you don't have to aim Flamebrand lol.

[muted lagoon]

Saw a reddit post showing off flame reave with that ring

Looked pretty cool and nice for the league mechanic as well

[plucky portal]

Following that cold fire aura build. i am going a littel crazy. cause i have exsanguis with 60% cold resist.
and when i equip a different armor with +20 intelligence. my damage goes down.
over the esanguis armor? i don't get it.

i don't understand which stat is scaling fire aura on the esanguis

[kindred oxide]

I'm using Titan Heart + Siphon as the basis of my defense. Brewmaster for Endurance. Armor is about 2k.

Spellblade defenses are interesting. Has a weird blend of health, armor, ward, dodge.

[nimble horizon]

unfortunately im ward retention stacking with cold res shackles

[kindred oxide]

I was playing that build before with Aura. I didn't love it. Died too easily in early corruption.

[nimble horizon]

yea its pretty bad rn

[umbral perch]

Incinerating aura passive node, it's the cold rez

[kindred oxide]

it feels safe cuz ward # is high. but armor is low and ward generation cant keep up with incoming damage. on-hit ward effects working too slowly.

life steal when you're outputting big damage outpaces incoming damage until the targets are dead. i find is more reliable than ward.

[plucky portal]

well i been able to scale my spellblade cold fire aura 8000 ward and i still sometimes die if enough shit get on screen or if i get stunned enough. on bosses i usually do good enough. this is 320 corruption.

one thing that might have inadvertently helped me.

is for my helmet i am using a 1lp Somnia with max ward retention roll and 16 intelligence.
it has a side effect of stunning enemies nearby that i can kill.

i think its been helping me in trash cause of the extra stun.

i think 8000 ward is over kill 5-6k is i think good enough. just getting confused on scaling fire aura damage.
it doesn't always reflect the damage increase in the tooltip. when i equip different body armors. confusing me.

[nimble horizon]

y somnia tho

[plucky portal]

its jut what i had on hand. i tried boneclamor.
was using a decent exalted earlier. but they are all imperfect to me. so just thought I try it.

I think at the time my ward retention

i guess 16 int on a boneclamor might be better?

[weary hamlet]

keep in mind that you can leave the omen area for up to 10 sec, but overall omens are a pretty scary mechanic by LE standards

[plucky portal]

So folliwng the cold fire Aura build.
I am noticing that cold resistance is increasing fire aura damage. Does anyone know why?

sure i have frostbite shackles equipped. but i don't understand why cold resistance ups the damage of fire aura

I don't understand or see where link to damage and cold resistance is.

[weary hamlet]

dw LE balance is a joke even without comparison to other games

[nimble horizon]

wat weapons are u using? i havent found a mad alchemists ladle yet

so im sorta stuck using some 2h staff with big % inc dmg and cold pen

not the worst but the attack speed is slow af compared to dual wield

[plucky portal]

yeah i am using am 1lp mad alchmeist. ladel with T7 elemental damage over time.
you can try to get one with rune of acendance if you have one.

my offhand is gravers. but have also tried out yruns revenge for offhand. it can work well but its life leech messes with ward per second.

you can fix that with a Xithara conundrum amulet though.

[mental hamlet]

What an upgrade. Now i want the same BUT with 2 T7 😄

[tiny quail]

4 ok? i have one more try

but if it gets worse thats it

[mental hamlet]

I take it all the day

Imo

[tiny quail]

thanks!

id say its better with a good slam so

(than what i got)

[mental hamlet]

I think so too. With a T7

[tiny quail]

yeah

[kindred oxide]

Sweet got the harbinger gauntlet down. Everything in that fight hits so hard.

[desert steppe]

How does whiteout work again? Do we pay the increased cost once on original cast and get free recasts, or does it consume the heightened mana cost on both original cast and the recasts?

[weary hamlet]

pay up front, free recasts

[velvet ermine]

hey does anyone know where I can find a glacier rune master levelling guide?

[finite cobalt]

I've dropped literally 0 rune of havoc, I'm lvl 87. Is it normal ?

[weary hamlet]

its pretty rare, pick rune mutations on rift beasts and farm them

[vague fox]

Im playing the Maxroll fire aura build, but i feel squishy and die every other mono in empowered monos

have every item except omnis too

i dont really have any good blessing yet, but will those alone make me much tankier?

[desert steppe]

so whiteout plus iceblink (2H version) gives up to 4 recasts per cast?

[rotund ocean]

Iceblink not only doesn't work with Whiteout, but it also only does one recast instead of two, its hella bugged

[desert steppe]

tf

🙁

[weary hamlet]

welcome to LE

[desert steppe]

never change

[mild bluff]

That build is quite squishy

Like with maxed out stats on "endgame" gear you only have about 9k ehp, 20k something with flamward

If you're cof you can farm ring prophecies to drop a red ring, that makes the build a bit tankier

[glossy quarry]

It’s better to go shatter strike 2h

With the new 16% DR and on top of titan heart DR

And the ward

It’s possible

I am happy a Spellblade was in the holy crusade

31% DR

Paladin level literally

Don’t need heals since you have ward

Your melee ele weapon has cleanse

[mild bluff]

Don't you get leech in the SS build as well?

[glossy quarry]

Yeah

Actually not from tree

39% DR with runemaster node that gives less damage when enemy is chilled ignited or shocked

You can get more DR% somehow but idk

And on top of that 10% parry chance

You are playing like a werebear

But actual tankiness lol

And until they fix iceblink

[mild bluff]

I mean flamward is a burst of infinite DR, 30% baseline + 40% tree + 30% Vs elemental

[glossy quarry]

Need a source of armor to DOTS

[mild bluff]

You can also wear red rings for 10-20% fr

[mild bluff]

Corrupted affix

[rotund ocean]

Mate, I had the same idea as you until corruption 200+. That DR is not doing jack shit, I'm still getting hit for 4000+

[mild bluff]

Or you can wear julras shield

[glossy quarry]

Damn just play rogue then

[rotund ocean]

And that's with frail stacks + sphere of protection from sorc tree

[glossy quarry]

Delete the screen and be tankier than a paladin

[glossy quarry]

But sorc can get like a lot of EHP

If you go mana build

But yeah you need the items

[rotund ocean]

Sorry runemaster tree not sorc tree

[glossy quarry]

Ah

[rotund ocean]

I dunno, I feel like even items are not going to save me at this point, Spellblade still doesn't feel very survivable, at least not especially compared to Sentinel

[glossy quarry]

Hmmm, sentinel has base tree -10%something DR

Riposte -36% something

Or even more

[rotund ocean]

They also get a shield though

[glossy quarry]

Void knight tree

[rotund ocean]

Blocking makes a big difference in survivability

I almost wanna rock a shield on spellblade lol

It's not like I need the damage

[mild bluff]

*majasa

[rotund ocean]

Looking at the corruption leaderboards, its looking like another Sentinel/Rogue season

Highest spellblade is rank 143 at 1149 corruption

[vague fox]

with what build?

[rotund ocean]

Looks like hes using flame reave surprisingly

[full bluff]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/Ukrop-fan/character/Kreol23

[minor monolith]

Flame reave got a bunch of nice buffs so it’s not that surprising

[rotund ocean]

All damage and no defense though, shatter strike got that armor per hit node that looks juicy, but I lost all motivation to play shatter strike when I discovered iceblink was bugged

Using flame reave, I have to kill everything before it kills me, which is great for maps, but terrible for bosses

[tiny quail]

ice blink is bugged? how?

im kinda bored of shatter strike, what else is good and can eventually do uber abby?

[rotund ocean]

Two hand is bugged, only recasts once instead of twice, and doesn't work with whiteout

[tiny quail]

ah

[fathom tundra]

which is better to use? as a lightning blast runemaster

[eager sparrow]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/PinkTails/character/HeroSiege1Week my flame reave. I wanted crit hit version, not ignite or fire aura stuff. It has premium clear(literally wide screen clear), good survivability, good singletarget. But build is very button intensive on single target, you need to juggle stacks of rhythm of fire for flame reave and using flame reave on cooldown with surge and manual flame reave. It's exhausting, but I like it somehow. Expending stacks of firebrand for huge flame reave damage is bite, it would be great 1 button damage, but it's not comfortable AT ALL. -20% less as on firebrand is huge, but you want 9 stacks for this build. Definetily not uber viable even with premium gear, but it's enjoyable and overall good build. I'm sure it can easily farm 1k corrupt with good enough investment. Would I recommend this variation? No if you dont like managing stacks and pressing 20 buttons. I think fire aura variation is 10x stronger

[round hare]

So right now Same as Last leason, If you need uber items, Make a Pala or VK Grab items and Log Back to spellblade, so did i Last season ( cof ACC found )

[eager sparrow]

I think pure flame reave is just better and comfortable

[mild bluff]

Hard to say without seeing the rest of your build but I'd say right, like +4 int is not a lot

[little pagoda]

whole point of orions belt is that it can give +20 int on a slot that cant roll int

[warm inlet]

I'm playing Cold Fire Aura, I modified the planner from maxroll a bit to include a T7 exp missing health as ward on the frostbite shackles, I feel much tankier now.

I'm thinking about changing exsanguinous to the harby chest (if I can nullify the melee leech somehow) or wings of argentus (which gives firebrand levels but the DR is situational)

[kindred oxide]

I'm playing a similar build. It is very good. Will see how it does vs uber.

Titan Heart is a strong item

[weary hamlet]

sentinel used to be the laughing stock of everybody with the lowest survivability in the game by a mile, then the rework happened and suddenly it's the best class in the game, le LE balance

[weary hamlet]

ironically most of the builds dont even use the shield anymore, why bother just press vengeance

[weary hamlet]

not surprising, it should be quite good against the omen mechanic due to large coverage and forcing mobs to respawn quick, faster respawn -> less time spent dealing with the dangerous bullshit cast by the spirit

like le LE classic damage "over time" that oneshots you

or the soulfire bastion skeleton mages spamming ignites that deal like 2k/sec

[bright pumice]

How can I get more ward on LB RM? Using twisted heart only gets me to 4k sometimes

[weary hamlet]

you can go low life in flame reave though, can't you? Your primal slot is open

yeah ll mage is just strictly worse than ll primalist or rogue cause no ll more damage/less taken passive but whatever

[kindred oxide]

Sentinel wasn't even that bad before that patch. Healing hands paladin on launch was one of the strongest builds. People just assumed Sentinel was bad without trying.

I played erasing strike on launch and got it to 1700 corruption. The next patch they added world splitter (huge) and then the sentinel patch.

[weary hamlet]

did you try incineration/illuminating fire, can't be bothered to math it out whether or not it is significantly better, but you are already running cooldown FR

[kindred oxide]

Spellblade kinda laughing stock. Haha.

This flame reave build is great though. Fire aura was fun to build but underwhelming results tbh.

[weary hamlet]

I mean back in 0.7-0.9.2 era before healing hands was even a thing, and that was giga busted when it released

[kindred oxide]

Ahh. Thought you meant before the rework. I thought it was fine on launch.

Except melee sucked desperately needed Evade. And ward was king for defense.

Playing fire aura, it has a few probs.

On defense, it can build an big initial ward but what if incoming damage is high and sustained. How do you sustain your defense to match? It rebuilds ward too slowly.

On the Flame Reave build, it uses defenses that a melee would think to use. like Titan heart and siphon of anguish. When you're dealing insane damage, life steal sustains you.

That build is tanker than fire aura imo.

[eager sparrow]

Yes I tried. Trying to build firebrand stacks is PAIN. Damage is great when you expend 9 firebrand stacks, but building back stacks when your firebrand having mana strike range and no attack speed is not bad, it's literally PAIN. And if you playing with surge - surge will expend stacks before FR. But on paper you can take Blade Weaver passive, teleport instead of surge and expend stacks to deal HUGE damage on flame reave. But again you would need immense attack speed to build stacks again AND having to stay IN boss's face all this time. Yeah...

[kindred oxide]

Spellblades passive tree gives you tools to build defenses by combining a variety of things. Armor, endurance, ward, dodge.

Fire aura tries to build defenses like a rune master not a spellblade. exsanguinous, last steps, on hit ward effects. Not enough.

[eager sparrow]

I think it can be somewhat acceptable with dual weald, but you a losing huge flat from jasper

[weary hamlet]

you don't need to build up to 9 stacks, just however many you can until you hit the cooldown again - should be like 5-6

but the bigger question here is, perhaps it's better to just spam flame reave and ditch firebrand entirely

[kindred oxide]

As far as probs on offense, the damage needs to build up and fire brand honestly is clunky to use.

[kindred oxide]

100% imo

[eager sparrow]

Again main problem is staying in the face of mobs/bosses, because firebrand without stacks having finger of range

[weary hamlet]

it used to be the way before this patch and I think it still is

[eager sparrow]

It's exactly that, I just having fun doing that combo gameplay and happy that it's good

[weary hamlet]

yea but if you just go FR then it always has the FR range

[kindred oxide]

How good was flame reave before this patch? I thought it was all shatter Strike. My first season as mage.

[weary hamlet]

not terrible but like normal aby tier

500-600 corr

[rotund ocean]

Flame reave was not good before this patch

[kindred oxide]

I think it's really good. Maybe uber.

[rotund ocean]

I feel like the new passive they gave to spellblade might have given flame reave way more power than the devs intended

[weary hamlet]

yea its damage was what, tripled? at least

[eager sparrow]

Flame reave was buffed ~х2.5 damage this patch

[weary hamlet]

and that's with its tree changes

[hollow bolt]

its also double dipping in the spell damage

[kindred oxide]

Yeah flame reave has so many multipliers.

[weary hamlet]

had been for a while now but it didn't matter with how bad the efficiency was

[kindred oxide]

I using Jasper staff and chest prefix. Gives you access to all of them.

[hollow bolt]

i meant from the mastery bonus too

[eager sparrow]

I think if you want big number doing cd flame reave with blade weaver passive you can just use ranged mana strike to quickly build stacks whenever you want and not having to stay in point blank. But you a losing all the benefits firebrand stacks do

[kindred oxide]

I went other way around. Cooldown Mana strike, spam flame reave.

Flame reave being on cooldown is too much of a damage loss imo.

Fires twice on cd, twice on Surge.

But your main damage source is spammable and scales with attack speed if not on cd.

Rotation is like:

Surge, reave x10, surge, reave x10, Mana strike once. Repeat.

[eager sparrow]

On 9 stacks of firebrand you have 45 melee flat fire, 45 spell flat fire, 675 flat armor and some wardpersec. It's not much damage loss, but you gain other benefits, And you can do 4 firebrands, flame reave, 2 firebrand, surge, 4 firebrand, flame reave... rotation pretty fast. I think dps wise it's almost the same

[kindred oxide]

Yeah would like to test it out.

[eager sparrow]

It's just matter of preference, I like this combo rotation playstyle and it's doing good numbers

[kindred oxide]

Yeah probably matter of preference. I'm happy to get off firebrand tbh. I liked building it but clunky to use.

[eager sparrow]

And everytime you do flame reave it's like doing 2 flame reaves with full stacks of rhythm of fire without cooldown. And I'm doing ~1 cast per 2 second roughly. Maybe it's even better dps on paper than doing flame reave off cooldown? Dunno

[kindred oxide]

Will have to test it out yah. I just feel like a lot of my boss damage comes from dumping 10 flame reaves within surge's cd, repeat.

[torn rampart]

is any of the fire aura enjoyers going cast speed? it shpuld scale tick rate but im not sure if thats worth it

[mighty juniper]

did someone playing cricle flame reave?

[royal drift]

Anyone have a levling guide for LB?

[kindred oxide]

Yeah we were just talking bout it. I switched to it and results are 👍

[neon cradle]

Is that salvageable to add set item affix and improve other affixes?

[little pagoda]

you want int

[mighty juniper]

u have planer to share?

[desert moat]

gonna be super tough and very rng with that base

[desert moat]

yeah dm me

[neon cradle]

what would be first lottery shot? set affix and hope it does not remove lb? Im aware I want int on that helmet but it's the first I found with +4 so far 😛

[desert moat]

im pretty sure the set affix is a prefix so youd have to rune of removal

[neon cradle]

oh I thought set craft automatically replaces one of prefixes/suffixes, sth has changed? I still need to run that woven echo to do it or just rune of shattering on set items will give me the shards and then forge?

[desert moat]

have to run the echo

if u wanna dm me i can show u the craft im currently getting ready to do it rn

[kindred oxide]

https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/olVXb8jG

[silk pewter]

Spellblade, Level 98

:white_check_mark: This character build is verified

Game Version:

Season 4: Shattered Omens / 1.4.1

Class:

Mage (20) / Spellblade (84) / Runemaster (7)

General:

▸ Health: 2,041, Regen: 0/s
▸ Mana: 298.5, Regen: 8.4/s
▸ Ward Retention: 136%, Regen: 107/s
▸ Attributes: 19 Str / 65 Dex / 68 Int / 11 Att / 32 Vit
▸ Resistances: 132% / 75% / 85% / 75% / 94% / 121% / 82%

Defenses:

▸ Endurance: 59%, Threshold: 408
▸ Dodge Chance: 14% (446)
▸ Armor Mitigation: 39% (2,153)
▸ Block Chance: 15%, Mitigation: 26% (477)
▸ Crit Avoidance: 85%

Used skills:

Mana Strike / Flame Reave / Flame Ward / Enchant Weapon / Surge

[kindred oxide]

@mighty juniper

[mighty juniper]

but its not circle flame reave

[eager sparrow]

Ring is doing circle

[mighty juniper]

ohh

ye

my bad

[hasty obsidian]

anyone know the answer for this question? about less damage taken from harbinger of star belt, will it apply if i take multiple meteors per cast nodes? we can have up to 6 meteors per cast, so 1 cast gives 6% less damage taken or just 1%?

[weary hamlet]

it should count casts of the meteor skill, not meteors that actually spawn

[mental zephyr]

has anyone gotten "unstable enchant" from enchant weapon to work? it doesnt cast the nova for me

[weary hamlet]

that said it's pointless to take more meteors if you want to mostly rely on the proc as they only work on direct casts now

[hasty obsidian]

thanks, i'm playing direct cast lightning meteor, trying to find some defensive stat for my build 😄

[cloud oasis]

Sorry to bother you, but it is it possible, that the node "Conflagrate", in the "enchant weapon" doesn't work?

[cyan field]

I tried using chatgpt to create a lightning sorc leveling lootfilter for me, with some additional parameters...oh boy. nothing works as i want to, not even close xD
guess ill just have my generic loot filter with 5 rules and let it be

[fervent ledge]

Are you mg

I just use tsm filter strict

[nimble shoal]

It does not scale tick rate. Only speed you need to worry about is one that increases your proc rate (probably melee attack speed)

[harsh abyss]

If you think cast speed should increase tick rate, wait until you hear about how channeled spells deal with cast speed

[nimble shoal]

Yeah, you'll be better using just about anything else at all, even no filter

[cyan field]

wdym

[cyan field]

i tried for 2 hours to work with chatgpt, even having a maxroll filter as baseline. completely unusable

[harsh abyss]

My universal filter is pretty simple (order inversed):

1. Hide magic items
2. Hide rare items
3. Show class-specific mod items
4. Change color for T7 exalted
5. Hide 0lp uniques
6. Show hyper-rare uniques
7. Show/Recolor/Emphasize T7 affixes that I want for my build(s)
8. Show/Recolor/Emphasize uniques that I want for my build(s)

[dull reef]

Not sure why people would try to use an LLM for something as lexicographically dense as the LE loot filter.

[harsh abyss]

right? I can't imagine it giving you anything close to valid results

[cyan field]

i have no idea what any of these abreviations mean xD

[dull reef]

Well I think that of most results from LLMs, but it would seem particularly egregious here.

[cyan field]

i just figured, should be easy for an AI to make when its given a baseline. guess i was wrong

[nimble shoal]

lol

[gilded iron]

can i find a list of the hyper rare uniques somewhere?

[dull reef]

Making your own loot filter from scratch is probably the most effective, and it's a useful skill to have.

[cyan field]

im a filthy casual, i just wanna slap a loot filter on and go monster killing xD

[harsh abyss]

The only ones I have in that line are Red Ring, Oceareon and Bastion 😝

[dull reef]

I feel like knowing what uniques you want / sell well would be more useful than just rarity.

[harsh abyss]

Beyond that, I have things in my "uniques I care about" line

[gilded iron]

i tried out of interest and it gave me a very basic but valid and functional filter, claude code for this one

[dull reef]

Well, in that case, I feel that you're getting what you should.

[gilded iron]

oh im CoF anyways

[nimble shoal]

You'd probably need someone to train a model for it specifically to come even close, or make a tool that is designed specifically for it

[desert moat]

cof . mg

cof>>>> mg

[dull reef]

Then why is it important the rarity of the uniques that drop? I also exclusively play CoF as well. Just trying to cover bases.

[molten vessel]

Hi, I'm playing the Maxroll Fire Aura frost version Spellblade and I'm finding the build has some defensive issues. Any ways to fix this? I'm not at max gear, but I'm still getting one-shotted sometimes.

all res cap, 5K ward

[dull reef]

I mean, the tool in-game is exactly what you would want, no?

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, I just have the super rare uniques highlighted so I don't miss them if I get a big batch of drops at once from prophecies or whatnot and so they aren't hidden by my "hide 0lp uniques" line

[gilded iron]

i dont want to chase super rare things for days just cause i didnt pick them up when i could have if i ever switch builds

[gilded iron]

thats spellblade for you

[cyan field]

Am i good using a "casual mage leveling filter" from 1.3? dont know if 1.4 changed smt important

[dull reef]

Enh. It is much more straightforward to plan builds and then the items for that build get highlighted than speculate builds based on the items that drop. From a filter perspective.

[dull reef]

It's what I use, at least at first.

[harsh abyss]

Probably mostly. There are some new things and improvements to filters but if it worked then, it'll work now

[gilded iron]

its not like i want every unique, just the few super rares

[cyan field]

thanks

[harsh abyss]

I'd start reviewing your filter when you get to empowered monos or when you're looking for VERY specific things.

[dull reef]

Well, don't know what to tell you. For me, I tend to pick up way too much, so I don't have that issue.

I also have played for a while, so if I see something I don't recognize, I tend to associate that with rarity.

[pulsar schooner]

guys, do i need to skill something for mages to drop mad alchemist ladel ? it does not seem to drop for me and iam lvl 99 and did every mage i found

[gilded iron]

i usually filter for super rares and 2lp+ in addition to my needed uniques

[desert moat]

1% drop rate

[dull reef]

It only drops from the Mages, so increasing chances of finding them is really the only agency you have.

[desert moat]

u can come run with me if we get an obsidian ill give u one

[gilded iron]

ok what secret are you hiding

[abstract scaffold]

I never understood this. Like, imagine you just skip every red ring because its not in your build. Or miss a 3t7 item because it doesn't have a specific affix. I'd hate a filter like that

[molten vessel]

The Woven Echo, "Rune Prison" many mage

[desert moat]

winner winner

[gilded iron]

can you buy it or drop only?

just need one for those imprints

[desert moat]

if u imprint rune prison complex and dont complete it( kill all mages just dont go back to the center) u can repeat the echo infinitly

[molten vessel]

Get one "rune prison" and put it in the node in the weaver tree for drop this woven echo more frequently

[desert moat]

u can only drop rune prison echo

then imprint it

[molten vessel]

Oh

xd

[desert moat]

but

it has the same drop rate as a ladle

[gilded iron]

i mean i found 2 ladles

[molten vessel]

Yeah but u have infine chance for drop it xd

[gilded iron]

so my time for echo is here

[desert moat]

im 30+ ladles in and no rune prison

[little pagoda]

has anyone done the triple omen windows? because it seems literally impossible

[dull reef]

I've never missed a Red Ring because I've never seen one. Again, I pick up way too much so there is no way I'd miss that.

shrug I just find it odd to want to know what the rare items are 'just because'. Also kinda pointless to ask, because that's one thing that an LLM could probably tell you accurately.

[nimble shoal]

No, I mean a tool designed for use by the AI

[desert moat]

yea theyre pretty calm if ur tanky

[gilded iron]

they are so rare you are chasing them for days if you actually need one

[molten vessel]

that's the difficulty xd

Tanking as mage is not very simple if you are not over gear

[dull reef]

Well, honestly, if you are on this Discord, I would assume you know Red Ring. It was the OG chase item in the game.

[desert moat]

does it go 4lp?

[dull reef]

Well, given my very low opinion of AI, I don't really see the point of making one

[dull reef]

I had one last season.. only 4LP item I have ever had. Never did anything with it because I couldn't find the exalt to use on it.

[abstract scaffold]

I'm guessing ur MG then? Cus looking through every ring after proccing 10 profecies is torture. And trusting LLM for anything is just setting yourself up for failure

[molten vessel]

Just slam a double ou triple good exalt with the redemtions rune and enjoy

[dull reef]

I exclusively play CoF.

[dull reef]

Well last league so...

[desert moat]

i mean ig

[left hill]

any unique can be LP4 in theory. odds aren't terrible for that one either. like ~1 in 1611 Mad Alchemist Ladles will be LP4

[hasty osprey]

Is Volcanus a good unique now with the buff?

[molten vessel]

yeah but i mean if you get a new items 3/4 LP use it and enjoy it dont try to get perfect items or you might never use it xd

[little pagoda]

so its for non mages lmao

[dull reef]

Enh. I understand your point. I burn out on games too quickly to make that much of an issue.

[abstract scaffold]

My guy, it's harder to look through every ring on the floor than to just spend 5 seconds adding red ring to ur filter 😭 I feel so bad for you

[dull reef]

It's hard for dead enemies to hurt you.

[desert moat]

wdym mages are tanky

[little pagoda]

Cant kill them if they offscreen me

half of them an invul as well

because thats a fun mechanic

[dull reef]

I like picking things up.

[dull reef]

Off screen them first? 🤨

[little pagoda]

cant theres too many xD

[desert moat]

mage has infinite health leech + convert health to ward every cast (ward leech)

[little pagoda]

It doesnt matter in triple omen windows you take so much dmg

[kindred oxide]

Just a stat check

[dull reef]

Well I haven't hit triple Omens yet, so...

Still though I'm an absolute filthy casual by standards here so I should probably just shut up.

[little pagoda]

theres way too much dmg in triple omens coming at you

[desert moat]

sounds like a skill diff

what corruption r u

[abstract scaffold]

Simply dodge

[little pagoda]

500

have you done a triple omen xD

[desert moat]

yea what build r u playing?

[dull reef]

I feel like we should different channels for discussion of things like difficulty based on corruption level / where people are in the difficulty progression.

[little pagoda]

Lb

like I can kill 500 corruption bosses before they even do their mechanics

[desert moat]

whats ur inn town dps sitting at

[vivid wedge]

You just using the frozen LB build? Reluctantly swapping over from spellblade because living is more fun

[little pagoda]

yep

err lemme check

on LB? 275k

[dull reef]

LB is certainly a blast to level.

[desert moat]

yeah idk how ur havbing issues

[dull reef]

Can we get Frozen sentinel in here to diagnose? 🤔

[woven cedar]

does a stat need to specify spell crit chance or does just crit chance apply to spells also

[dull reef]

General crit chance will apply to spells.

[woven cedar]

ok ty

[dull reef]

E.g., dagger implicits

[mental hamlet]

Hey, what do you use as belt ? Unique ? Exalted ?

[dull reef]

Depends on the build.

[mental hamlet]

I'm looking for Lightning Shatter Strike

Exalted belt aren't that good since there isn't any good set to put.

[dull reef]

Very not good with Spellblade unfortunately. What point of the game are you at?

[mental hamlet]

Could still use Isadora's for %armor i guess.

[dull reef]

Isadora Belt has no reason to be as generically good as it is. 🤩

[mental hamlet]

I don't use cast speed nor necrotic ^^"

My best would be this

[vivid wedge]

If you're int, maybe orian's, generic would be brewmaster

[little pagoda]

I can kill fine, I just die instantly in a triple window

[vivid wedge]

Assuming you're 2h, otherwise jormuns is a contender

[mental hamlet]

I'm using Battlemage's Endeavour, so yes, 2H it is.

Orian's has too low stats to benefit the 20 int.

I would prefer Brewmaster if i need to choose. With a T7 Lightning damage, that's would be good.

[vivid wedge]

Orian's would be 20 int at max do 80% increased, with T7 lightning slammed would be another 80-100%, forget the T7 range

[mental hamlet]

But i'm loosing too much HP so that would be a praetorian belt with health%, T7 lightning damage. So i just need to decide which set i put in it. Prefix preferably (becuase mana regen isn't that necessary)
If i want to minmax my res, it would be Pebbles for %cold res.

(120% t7)

[vivid wedge]

Spidersilk base?

[mental hamlet]

Or spider silk. ~40+ poison/cold vs 120 armor.

Would probably go for the first one to drop xD

[vivid wedge]

Depends what you're missing, lightning + hybrid or % health is a ton of survival, whether that's slammed on a unique or just crafted on

[mental hamlet]

I can fix res with one ring, gloves and relic. (Nothing planned for those)

So i can slam a unique belt

[neon elk]

why does firebrand not build any stacks on julra?

[vivid wedge]

Max damage then would be orians + T7 lightning or int since double dipping on prefixes

[little pagoda]

if i used this i'd be happy

[mental hamlet]

I got this one

[mild bluff]

for fire aura (low life) what helmet do i want? I've rolled chill immunity on an idol so i dont need mask of indifference anymore

[spark vector]

Mask of Indifference is still very nice

Means you don't need to use suffixes to be crit immune

[mild bluff]

I mean i would rather have an item with like t7 crit avoid and some real affixs

[spark vector]

Fair

[mental hamlet]

Hmm, how hard is it to get T7 Lightning damage and T7 health% ? xD

Could use runes

[harsh abyss]

Double T7 is MUCH harder this season.

[mild bluff]

yeah they nerfed imprinting a lot

[mental hamlet]

They "just" divided it by 2, isnt it ?

[tardy grotto]

I believe I know the answer to this already, but I'm hopeful. Does this add generic spell damage, or spell dam of the specific type of melee damage? i.e., Melee cold damage adding cold spell damage, and not just spell damage?

[weary hamlet]

nah they divided a few factors in it by 2 each

[weary hamlet]

adaptive to adaptive, typed to typed

also had anybody brewed a build with the VO set?

time to play some real jank

[mental hamlet]

It's only added damages no ? The % damage too ?

[weary hamlet]

only flat damage

[mental hamlet]

Ty. I'll go for t7/t5 orian's if im too squishy, i'll go same with brew belt

[willow bay]

fireball still the way to go for lvling?

[weary hamlet]

yea still as easy as always

[willow bay]

did firestarter get nerf?

[weary hamlet]

no

why would it need a nerf, it's basically unusable in any real build

except maybe like fireball/fire claw ignite

[willow bay]

just seems the spread chance is lower

[weary hamlet]

roll ranges on it hadnt changed

[harsh abyss]

I mean it's good in any fire-based DoT build

[spark vector]

It's good yes, but it's not good enough to need a nerf

If anything, more options need to be added

[weary hamlet]

except glyph. And black hole. And disintegrate. And frost wall (lol)

so hit based ignite build is more like it, which on mage is like.. fireball or frost claw

[willow bay]

did they fix the embers ammy from last season

[harsh abyss]

In some ways, I haven't tested it yet though.

There were a bunch of fixes/improvements in the patch notes

[weary hamlet]

it's on my list of builds to try, I already have a lot of the gear too

maybe this or next week

[harsh abyss]

I finally got my gordian prism and invoker set last night, might be time to spin that one up

And a +6 Crest of Unity

[willow bay]

well my flame weave ignite build fell off S3 cuz embers didnt work lol

[plucky portal]

is fire aura build still the in the lead for highest corruption spellblade?

[weary hamlet]

was it ever?

[plucky portal]

oh yeah good point. i just thought was the lead build to scale. but trying it. i can tell you its not the lead build to scale. lol

i checked the rankings. ok flame reave is in the lead

with 1200 corruption

[harsh abyss]

It's just super popular this season because it got massively buffed

[weary hamlet]

havent played it yet but the biggest problem is survivability, the damage should be ok

your options is basically low life or low life or eh vessel? hardly worth it

[mild bluff]

game just does not want me to play mage ig

[weary hamlet]

just play disintegrate 5head

[fervent ledge]

Can you craft the neck into set

The new weaver one for lb build

[glossy quarry]

Disintegrate fire aura

Disintegrate has DR in the tree

☝️🤓

[little pagoda]

what am I meant to do xD

great design 10/10

[weary hamlet]

always had been

back in 1.1 when I played fire disintegrate like a third of my damage was fire auras

maybe 20%

and now that fire aura damage was boosted by a factor of 10+

[neon cradle]

Folks, for selfcast LB should I transfer t7 cast speed for 1LP wand and offhand, or one cast the other crit multi or both crit multi?

[kindred oxide]

It's not very good. Offensively and defensively. Even if someone finds a better way to build it, the damage ceiling seems still low and there is no benefit to a dot build that doesn't scale off multipliers from the skill that applied it.

[little pagoda]

@tame loom see the video above

[royal drift]

Is madness something you should avoid as LB or is it beneficial?

[spark vector]

What does it provide?

And what stat does it replace?

[little pagoda]

madness isnt needed tbh

[harsh abyss]

Madness is +1% crit multi, -1% crit reduction
So you just have to get avoid instead of reduction

If you're doing a no-ward build (fractured crown), it's probably really good.

I was considering a mana+int stacking Vilatria staff + Legends Entwined Static Orb build that converts to madness

If you're a ward build, it's a much harder sell, because ward retention isn't available in that many places and you get a fair bit by stacking intelligence. So you either need to generate ward in big bursts, or be significantly less reliant on ward in general

[finite cobalt]

what would be the chest piece to get if I'm trying to work towards fireball + coc meteor + vilatria ?

[elfin rapids]

A long time ago i saw some YT video of some guys testing the Charged Ground subskill into Static Orb, and they said that not only generic Critical Multiplier gives more damage to it but also Spell Critical Multiplier, which means it would benefit both from the Spell Crit on Fractured Crown and from Madness, the problem is that the hit version of Static Orb probably is just better because the 1% more damage per mana cost.

[dull reef]

I wonder how good Madness could be in Cleaver Solution Spell-trigger builds (like Hammer Throw -Smite on Sentinel).

[harsh abyss]

With all the +levels of skills we can get these days... why not both?

[cosmic dove]

Unstable Core is the first thought but I am no LE expert

[harsh abyss]

Crit multi scales the hit version, yeah you aren't gonna get ele dot affixes, but you're gonna get crit multi scaling instead.

[finite cobalt]

that's what I thought but now that I got one at 1LP and looking at it, I'm not so sure if it's any good tbh 😄

[little pagoda]

what a sick corrupt

[harsh abyss]

oh wow, yeah that's great

[spark vector]

Very nice

[little pagoda]

its great for dmg, it'll gives like 2 skills + lots of mana for meteor

[finite cobalt]

it's only +1 lightning, mana is decent but I'm using bluefeather band so

[little pagoda]

im gonna have to go make a warpath for the triple omen windows lmao

oh your going the fireball spec

[finite cobalt]

yeah, also I suppose I would need +int for vilatria, and +3/4 meteor, so atleast 2LP :/

(I have no idea where I'm going with that)

[dull reef]

I can't get past exactly how good corrupted items are for leveling. It feels very similar to when Nemesis was first released.

[elfin rapids]

Maybe, but even then it's hard to stack huge amounts of both Int and Mana.

[harsh abyss]

Sure, and for that build Int > Mana for sure. But I think it's more of a "just get as much as you can" situation

[little pagoda]

could even just get a 1lp with +4 meteor and then slam a bunch of them until you get the all attributes slam

[left hill]

or overstack crit reduction, which isn't terrible either since crit reduction comes with armor and only costs a bit of armor vs. a pure armor affix.

[harsh abyss]

I mean if you're int stacking at t he 200+ level, the opportunity cost is probably better to get avoid

[left hill]

oh, if you're going to 200+, sure

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, and that's where it'll be the strongest

[spark cedar]

Anyone else noticing huge memory leak with shatter strike?

[round hare]

I think i can Progress corruption now with this weapon and relic rolls

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/Yanglareido/character/Malaxx

[dusky pelican]

Hmmz my first 4LP item (CoF) dropped ... bee on melee hit gloves, quite well rolled, was hoping for a spellblade unique to be my first :D

[dull reef]

BEES!

[vivid wedge]

Oh hell yeah you landed the max rolls one?

[finite cobalt]

do you need forging potential to craft set affix onto an item ?

[little pagoda]

nah it was a reforge roll

that was a base ring

[carmine abyss]

QQ guys, new to the game. just cleared the campaign (no side quests) with shatter ice lvling build. what should I do next?

[vivid wedge]

Ahh yeah see it now, was just looking at your crazy prefix rolls

[vivid wedge]

Monoliths! Finish up getting passive points and idol spaces, then go to the End of Time and start the next part of progression

[carmine abyss]

should I keep my shatter ice build? or prob need to change it?

[daring ridge]

Hello everyone ! Im new to the game, i just wanted to know, for the mages who play with lightning blast, is it normal that i still get oneshot sometimes (like 1 run / 3-5 runs) at corruption 800 ? And i wanted to know, i have some mana issues i oftenly run low mana is it normal too ? Thanks for the answer ! 🙂

Im caped at resistance i got 1500hp and i go up to 5k ward maximum

[vivid wedge]

Probably good for now, it's fairly easy to change builds once you hit monoliths so most people will keep using a build until it can't go any further, then try alternatives

[carmine abyss]

okay! tysm

[little pagoda]

some of the fights in this are so stupid

[gilded iron]

Made a pretty strict filter LB Runemaster if anyone is interested:
It shows exactly what you need for the build plus some minor extras:

• 2x t6+
• LP2+ Uniques
• Rare uniques
• Dungeon & Harbinger Uniques
• Primordial Uniques

Anything you dont want easily disable-able
Hoping for some feedback if anyone has time to take a look

[vivid wedge]

Appreciate you a ton for this, will use this tonight

[frosty pewter]

Has anyone made a runemaster build that actually fulfills the invoker fantasy? Or is it all just focusing on a single invoke?

[little pagoda]

dont you want lp1 as well so you can slam them

like a 1lp chest with int + the all attributes slam is better than an lp2 chest

[gilded iron]

LP2+ is just for random uniques you dont need, any build items are always shown

[little pagoda]

oh nice

I'll have to do some editiong I guess im gonna be making a warpath eventually

[gilded iron]

you mean on that filter?

[little pagoda]

i'll use it though ty

yeah

[gilded iron]

you would have to swap out the full idol section and anything thats bright pink

[little pagoda]

zzz xD

[cyan field]

Maybe you guys can help me out. I was looking to play a lightning sorcerer build. flipping through the LE Item Database, the only "good" uniques i found was one wand and a 2 set with a staff in it. Is there anything "cool" that i am missing? Seems pretty low variety

[little pagoda]

a lightning blast?

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/planner/he1sop0i#3

[spark vector]

The madness planner doesn't even use madness

Am I missing something?

[vivid wedge]

There's a few tags you're probably missing, elemental skill tags (twisted heart), lightning tags (enigma, unstable core), spell crit (blood mage gloves) and some stuff that's just generically good for spellcasters

[weary hamlet]

going through a bunch of half baked leggies, rngesus smiled on this one

[little pagoda]

yeah ignore the madness, turns out you cant get madness on the weaver amulet

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, this is so dumb

[gilded iron]

you cant corrupt it on there?

[vivid wedge]

Shoot what happened to the 1/15 corruption on set things

[little pagoda]

does this show lp1 exalted?

[little pagoda]

no only things that can happen if you slam a set item is it turns into a reforged

[gilded iron]

huh? how would a unique be exalted?

[cyan field]

gotta check them out thanks

[little pagoda]

sry meant 1 t7 exalteds

[gilded iron]

cant you create a reforged weaver and then corrupt it?

[little pagoda]

not with the amulet you cant, if your reforge you lose the skills

[gilded iron]

yes, rule 7, any t7 you want for this build is shown

[harsh abyss]

Yeah, you lose the main good affix if you mak a reforged

[little pagoda]

ty

[gilded iron]

eh, well

[spark vector]

They had a chance to make actual sets items okay and they blew it XD

EHG hates set items confirmed

[little pagoda]

yeah

[spark vector]

Does seem weird though

[little pagoda]

still thought you still wear the weaver amulet its that strong lmao

[gilded iron]

oh damn, i forgot harbingers needle in the filter, you should add a rule for that, or should I update and upload?

[spark vector]

It makes so little sense I am going to assume it has to be a bug right?

[little pagoda]

xD

[little pagoda]

add it where

[gilded iron]

just make a new rule set it to unique and check small idols

[little pagoda]

I just added it too harbinger unqiues

[vivid wedge]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/planner/he1sop0i#3

a lot of the items come down to what the lightning mage in this build wants to do, which is stack int, lots of it

boots, belt --> int
ferebor ring --> set bonus (triggers Legends Entwined ring) + lots of int
wand --> increased cast speed based on int, does every ailment and then gets more damage from it
chest --> mana, +levels, +damage
catalyst --> lots of damage based on, you guessed it, int
head --> shock chance based on...int, and damage based on int

[gilded iron]

or that

[tacit coral]

wtf it costs 500k to respec mastery? lmao

[weary hamlet]

1m at max level I think?

[full bluff]

Anyone managed to get 1lp on a red ring from nemesis, failed 9 in a row now, also failed on corrupting 🙂

[shrewd thistle]

I am playing mage right now what build is good this season

[gilded iron]

lightning blast runemaster

[shrewd thistle]

Oh well I am playing lightning blast to lvl

[gilded iron]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/planner/he1sop0i FrozenSentinel has a pretty guild build out

[rotund schooner]

hello guys

whats an optimal corruption level for this season? i remember back when the game was first released in 1.0 i was reaching like c900 easily with a pala build lol, now im on a lighting blast with almost all uniques folllowing the guide, and im felling like when i reach 250-300 will be my max
so its the build that wack, or was everything nerfed

[gilded iron]

300 to complete the aberoth questline

[shrewd thistle]

So it just like u cast lightning blast as fast as you can

[gilded iron]

optimal builds push to 1200+

[gilded iron]

yes and each lightning blast hits 5-6 times

[rotund schooner]

optimal = meta? cause i think LB is considered meta

[gilded iron]

meta + min maxed

[shrewd thistle]

Oh nice I will see what I can do with it

[rotund schooner]

ive spent like 3mil to buy the stuff at the stier maxroll guide

im in c130 clearing it easily. but feels like it will fell off kinda fast

[gilded iron]

which build are you playing?

[rotund schooner]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/build-guides/lightning-blast-runemaster-guide

[gilded iron]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/planner/he1sop0i#3 switch to this one

[rotund schooner]

i dont see that many differences?

[gilded iron]

there are a few and they make a lot of difference

[ashen glacier]

best way to max out crit avoidance/dmg reduction in the LM RM build?

still lvl 82 starting empowered

put on belt?

[gilded iron]

you mean lb?

[ashen glacier]

ya

[rotund schooner]

could you note some for example please?

first time playing mage

[gilded iron]

reforged helmet

[little pagoda]

I mean im doing like 600 easy enough

[gilded iron]

runebolt instead of glacier

[mental hamlet]

Too bad i'm not using those 🙁

[ashen glacier]

okay so helmet with crit avoid, int, and then put on valatria shard?

[gilded iron]

yes

[weary hamlet]

got no balls to vaal 🙁

[ashen glacier]

the rest from blessings?

[little pagoda]

• levels to lightning blast

[gilded iron]

and lightning blast levels

[ashen glacier]

i can't afford that

[gilded iron]

forget MG

farm a base and craft it

rune of havoc is your friend

[ashen glacier]

ok but until then so i can farm

ill use one with out lb lvls

[gilded iron]

you dont need crit avoid that bad

build is fairly tanky

[ashen glacier]

those new omen mechanic is rough

[gilded iron]

yeah those are dots though

that kill you

[ashen glacier]

i sometimes get randomly 1 shot in that

[gilded iron]

do you have the relic yet?

that put me to 7000+ ward instantly

[shrewd thistle]

I am loving the mage so far only died once

[rotund schooner]

2 skills for dmg then?

[gilded iron]

havent died since

[ashen glacier]

i have the relic it gets me to around 6k ward

[gilded iron]

runebolt is just for buffs + mana

[ashen glacier]

im still fully lp0 atm tho i gotta start slamming.

i got a lp1 wand and offhand to craft tho , have to do it soon

im not sure cast speed or crit dmg yet, maybe 1 on each

[gilded iron]

yeah more int gets strong quick

[ashen glacier]

also 1lp foot o fmountain ill put int on that

[gilded iron]

you can also use the mountain helmet early on

easy 1lp and has a good amount of crit

[ashen glacier]

is there a crit avoid blessing i can't remember

[gilded iron]

yes

you can also LP armor + crit avoid into belt

[warped elk]

is lightning blast runemaster a fast mapper?

[ashen glacier]

oh yeah i have 1lp Omen belt

[gilded iron]

yes

[ashen glacier]

i could put the crit avoid on that and get blessing

fortunatly most items to make lp1 lightning blast build are pretty cheap

[gilded iron]

not as fast as warpath, but still fast

[ashen glacier]

i also got a valatria , how many shards do you get from 1 salvage of set

i havn't played since they added that i think

[gilded iron]

1lp + good corruption is worth more than 2lp most of the times

[ashen glacier]

btw so to make the valatria crown reforged , do i need a exalted with 3 slots and 1 open or is there a way to remove 1 of the shitty affixes i cant remember

[gilded iron]

you need one open prefix to slam valatria

[warped elk]

yeh idk whether to go lightning blast or erasing strike, i want a fast mapper that can kill uber abberoth, i heard that erasing strike struggles with mana

[ashen glacier]

shit i have 0 havocs

[gilded iron]

you can rune of removal yolo

[ashen glacier]

were do i farm havocs again

[gilded iron]

graveyard / tomb

mostly

oh and beasts

[ashen glacier]

how about glyp of dispair

does sealing affix move it away

[gilded iron]

yes

[ashen glacier]

nice

[gilded iron]

you can slam set and then despair it away

[ashen glacier]

lol nice

[gilded iron]

then slam lb and havoc it to t7

[ashen glacier]

have you also made a reforged Ferebors?

[gilded iron]

not yet

didnt drop good rings yet

as a result my res are looking bad

[ashen glacier]

i see

How does this guy have 120% less dmg from crits,
https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/Megaschwan/character/Magusanus

All I see is on belt.

oh I see idol

I actually am barely capable of doing the empowered monoliths with lp0 atm

100 empower lvl

is 82 too low for these?

or is this build not designed to be played with LP0

[gilded iron]

i mean it scales of int

how much do you have?

[ashen glacier]

129

i do low dmg and die fast atm

[gilded iron]

did you skill convergence?

[ashen glacier]

ya

oh wait some of my skills reset for some reason

[gilded iron]

yeah whenever you change gear

and disable some +1 level for just a millisecond

[sleek meteor]

are the volcanic orb rings any good?

[carmine abyss]

guys, I just finished side quests that give idol slots and passive points... but why does my inventory look like this?

[gilded iron]

that always looks like this by default

[carmine abyss]

ohh I thought I've missed one or two quests lol

[ashen glacier]

do i want to aim for a 8% twisted heart for more ward?

[gilded iron]

1lp and good corruption is more important

[ashen glacier]

ok thx

and out of cast speed and crit dmg which is more important

since i gotta slam my weps soon

[rotund schooner]

@gilded iron would u pls take a look and let me know what i should change immediately? you seem t ohave deep knowledge on that build

https://www.lastepochtools.com/profile/Dexwhite/character/LightMasta

[gilded iron]

https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/planner/he1sop0i#3 can just do 1:1 what FrozenSentinel does here

as i've been told he is who you want to look at when it comes to mage

[little pagoda]

also go get the rest of your blessings

[rotund schooner]

yeah im onto that too

[gilded iron]

• reforge your helmet
• do never slam t5 int like on your body, int always t7
  • you can filter for all t7 attributes and there is a woven echo that can switch them to int
• replace your gloves with grasp of the blood mage until you have a good swaddling

[rotund schooner]

how can i reforge?

[gilded iron]

there is a woven echo where you can extract sets as shards

[rotund schooner]

thanks a lot. will look into that

[full bluff]

getting close to immortal against dot... only

[spark vector]

Perfectly balanced

[frosty pewter]

Less damage scales multiplicatively with itself so youll never hit 100 sadly

[spark vector]

84% is a lot already

[carmine abyss]

hey! so I just finished the side quests give passive points and idol slots. the next step is monoliths? do I have to use crafting system at this point? or can just farm gears and use whatever the mobs drop?

[sleek meteor]

any idea if this increases single target damage?

like can it chain back and forth from me to a boss?

[ashen glacier]

a lot of people including him im looking at have 2lp im only 1lp so gotta deicde the 1 stat.

i migh tput attack speed on wand crit dmg on offhand

[little pagoda]

depends on your idols

but yh just do 1 of each

[mild bluff]

Whats better for fire aura? guessing the attack speed?

[plucky portal]

attack speed is key to keep fire aura procs up

[glossy quarry]

I forgot how annoying some enemies are as melee

sorry spellblade

I cant keep defending you

[mild bluff]

Yeah I'm already sustaining about 40ish without the attack speed

[weary hamlet]

You should be interacting with crafting since low levels tbh, it's the games main itemization mechanic. You will never drop gear that's just great from the get go

[dusky pelican]

incredible what penetration on weapon does for fire aura as well :(

[harsh abyss]

I was thinking about this for the Sorcerer version, Craterborn giving 75% penetration is pretty solid for fire auras

[dusky pelican]

yeah i am doing attack but 17% extra lightning pen boosts the tooltip dmg by 15%, insane

but i can't equip it, cuz i also enjoy the insane amount of attack speed to proc it :D

[remote urchin]

Any reason people are using that sword unique as a base for fire aura builds?

[dusky pelican]

i am

well depends on which unique

this one?

[kindred oxide]

Sheer + damage stats